Pedosphere 29(3): 388--399, 2019
ISSN 1002-0160/CN 32-1315/P
©2019 Soil Science Society of China
Published by Elsevier B.V. and Science Press
Impacts of Bioinoculants Pseudomonas jesenii MP1 and Rhodococcus qingshengii S10107 on Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) Yield and Soil Nitrogen Status
Divya JOSHI1, Ramesh CHANDRA2, Deep Chandra SUYAL1, Saurabh KUMAR1, Reeta GOEL1
1Department of Microbiology, College of Basic Sciences and Humanities, Govind Ballabh Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar-263145, Uttarakhand(India)
2Department of Soil Science, College of Agriculture, Govind Ballabh Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar-263145, Uttarakhand(India)
ABSTRACT
      Cold-adapted bioinoculants are considered as harbingers of sustainable hill agriculture. Therefore, two previously characterized psychrotolerant diazotrophs, Pseudomonas jesenii MP1 and Rhodococcus qingshengii S10107, were evaluated for their plant growthpromoting potential for chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) grown under natural field conditions. Comparative analysis of agronomical and biochemical crop parameters revealed the irrelevance of chemical fertilizers for chickpea production; the diazotrophs alone were sufficient to fulfil the crop's nutritional requirement. However, the integrated use of bacterial strains in combination with urea at 20 kg N ha-1 as urea was being recommended for higher crop yield and better soil nitrogen status. Quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) and denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE)-based soil bacterial dynamics unveiled the persistence of both diazotrophs until the end of the crop maturation period without affecting the native micro-flora. Therefore, these bioinoculants can be explored as natural nitrogen resource, and an additional incentive in their bio-formulation will be a step towards agricultural sustainability.
Key Words:  agricultural sustainability,denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE),hill agriculture,psychrotolerance,N fertilizer,N fixation,N uptake,quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR)
Citation: Joshi D, Chandra R, Suyal D C, Kumar S, Goel R. 2019. Impacts of bioinoculants Pseudomonas jesenii MP1 and Rhodococcus qingshengii S10107 on chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) yield and soil nitrogen status. Pedosphere. 29(3):388-399.
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